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"What the Pope meant to say," by William McGurn, AMU Trustee

Sunday, January 5, 2014

By William McGurn

January 3, 2014

‘It’s official: Pope has not abolished sin, says Vatican.”

Well thank you, Reuters.

The wire-service scoop on sin comes on the heels of other news flashes about Pope Francis. For example, when Time named the pope a contender for “Person of the Year,” it said it did so because of his “rejection of church dogma.”

In a similar manner The Daily Mail, under an AP byline, hailed Pope Francis’ pro-life plea to Catholic doctors as a “bizarre U-turn” in his position on abortion.

And The New York Times summed up an interview of Pope Francis with the headline, “Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ with Gays, Abortion, and Birth Control.”